It shows again that the civil rights effort of the Department of Justice, which also is being subjected to a potential cut needs to get full funding in the Office of Civil Rights.

Talk is cheap. I mean I have been around here a while. Budgets are what really, I think show the true willingness to act in situations like this.

I encourage all of our colleagues, particularly those on this Committee, to join us in addressing this mental health crisis amongst our school students.

As Co-Chair of the bipartisan Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Task Force, I am proud to support the efforts that will directly address the needs of our students.

I am proud to lead H.R. 2424, the Modern WIC Act, which will streamline access to WIC benefits.

We should have had OSHA standards that are well ready to go in terms of trying to identify high-risk patients and not send workers alone into situations like that.

In my State of Connecticut, we ranked ninth nationally for workers represented by a union.

Today I missed rollcall No. 679 on the Rule (H. Res. 891 ) for three bills under consideration on the floor this week: H.R. 5283, ``Protecting our Communities from Failure to Secure the Border Act; H.R. 5961, ``No Funds for Iranian…

Across the country workers are seeing corporations enjoy incredible profits while the workers are left behind with stagnant wages.

I guess my question is who is looking out for the little guy if big corporations are the focus of the Republican-controlled Congress?

In my opinion, there is a very good reason why the American people are just completely turned off by what they see here in Washington, DC, is because this is probably the least productive Congress, in memory, in terms of just the output of…

It is a direct result of congressional Democrats and President Biden's policy choices to support workers and businesses.

Employees should not have to bargain for what they are due by their employers.

The investments made by congressional Democrats and the Biden administration spurred the historic economic and wage growth, effectively rebuilding our economy from the bottom up and middle out.

Budgets matter in terms of whether or not, again there is someone to answer the phone, and actually put pressure on institutions.

There has been an increasing role of DEI sort of programs in which left-wingers are hired by colleges and universities.

When there is no remedy, there is no right.

I think that really kind of foot-stomps the need for us to really, as we go into conference, do as much as we possibly can to get these through.

There are 13 Virginia-class submarines in the queue that, again, are in various stages of production.

David Ignatius described AUKUS as 'the most important strategic move by the United States in decades.'

Following the Congressional Budget Office's report on the Navy's 30-year shipbuilding plan, there was reporting that AUKUS would cause a 10-year dip in attack submarine inventory.

House Foreign Affairs Committee approved 48-0 for the submarine transfer.

There is a case for urgency because we are deeply involved in execution today, and we need these authorities to be able to move forward.

Starting wage is $23 an hour. And, again, there is a really solid package in terms of retirement benefits and health.

I believe is actually the first hearing where there has been a real central focus in terms of AUKUS and Pillar 1.